Amazing Video of Saturn Stitched Together from Old NASA Photos

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A spectacular new video combines NASA images of the Saturn and
Jupiter systems into an eye-popping montage of moons, rings and
swirling otherworldly storms.

The video strings together photos snapped by NASA's Voyager and
Cassini spacecraft, according to its creator,
Netherlands-based freelance editor Sander van den Berg. He posted
the black-and-white piece, called "Outer Space," earlier this
month on the video-sharing site Vimeo.

"Outer Space" begins with close-up shots of
Saturn's iconic rings, then pans out to show them whirling in
space like a gigantic cosmic buzzsaw. Some of Saturn's many moons
occasionally zip through the field of view as they journey around
the huge planet.

The video focuses for a few seconds on one of the most intriguing
of these moons, the ice-encrusted Enceladus. Icy plumes of water
vapor, salts and carbonates spew from the south polar region of
Enceladus, which many researchers think harbors a deep subsurface
ocean of liquid water.

"Outer Space" also shows huge storms racing through the
atmospheres of both Jupiter and Saturn,
cosmic hurricanes that dwarf anything we experience here
on Earth.

The twin Voyager spacecraft launched a few weeks apart in 1977,
tasked primarily with studying Saturn, Jupiter and the gas
giants' moons. The probes made many interesting discoveries about
these far-flung bodies, including spotting live volcanoes on
Jupiter's moon Io — the first time such current geophysical
activity had been observed beyond Earth.

And then the spacecraft just kept going, checking out Uranus and
Neptune on their way toward interstellar space. Both are now
actively observing the strange environment at the edge of the
solar system; Voyager 1 is about 11 billion miles (18 billion
kilometers) from Earth, and Voyager 2 is 9 billion miles (15
billion km) from home.

The $3.2 billion Cassini mission launched in 1997 and arrived at
Saturn in 2004. The spacecraft has been studying the ringed
planet and its many moons ever since, and will continue to do so
for years to come. Last year, NASA extended the probe's mission
to at least 2017.